Abnormal Gourmet Chronicle-Chapter 1061 - 518: The Unexpectedly Completed Task

On the second day, when Qin Huai arrived at the canteen, he was slightly late, arriving at 5:17. Knowing he was late, the first thing Qin Huai did at work was to uncover the gauze on the rice cake, check the status of the rice cake, and start making sticky rice cake.

While making sticky rice cake, Qin Huai asked An Youyou about the progress on the helper's side with the preparation of ingredients.

The ingredients on the helper's side had long been prepared, and Chen An, seeing that Qin Huai had not arrived, even started wrapping a batch of buns, showing great dedication.

Qin Huai was moved and at the same time inwardly condemned himself for his lazy behavior today. As a well-known breakfast master, Qin Huai personally dislikes getting up early. He knows this behavior contradicts his identity, but he just doesn't like getting up early for breakfast.

But he loves making breakfast.

And wants to get up early.

It just shows that humans are indeed complex creatures.

As long as the rice cake is ready, making sticky rice cake is fast, simply wrap it with red bean filling, steam it, and then coat it with powdered sugar. In just over 10 minutes, fresh sticky rice cake was ready. Qin Huai almost stood by the pot waiting for the sticky rice cake to finish, impatiently cut a piece, blew on it for two minutes to cool, and stuffed it into his mouth to chew.

[Sticky Rice Cake level A]

The taste of A-level sticky rice cake is undoubtedly unquestionable; it's the taste that would make Xu Tuqiang burst into tears and shout praises for sticky rice cake.

However, while Qin Huai was eating, he didn't pay much attention to the taste and just gobbled it down. What he was savoring was the buff.

Carefully calculating, the yeast skill level has been stuck for a long time; yesterday Qin Huai only increased his yeast skill level by 3 points throughout the day. At this rate, rising to Master Level with yeast seems impossibly distant.

Need to resort to some unconventional methods.

Qin Huai thought about which types of potato dumplings to make later while swallowing sticky rice cake. Unexpectedly, he choked a bit, coughed crazily, and An Youyou, who was by his side, quickly handed over some tea.

After drinking enough tea, Qin Huai could tell how the tea was brewed, what type it was.

Gong Liang's Liu'an Guapian, the tea is good tea, just the brewing skills aren't great. Although An Youyou had diligently learned tea brewing for a while at Zhiwei Restaurant, the time was too short and the skills learned were limited; brewing ordinary black tea or green tea shows no problems, but when brewing Gong Liang's good tea, the issues become quite apparent.

But Qin Huai chose to encourage her.

"The tea's brewed nicely," Qin Huai complimented, "Youyou, next time just brew the black tea in the cabinet; I usually like drinking ordinary black tea."

"Got it, Master Qin." An Youyou quickly noted down.

Watching Qin Huai's movements quietly, Pei Xing thought: ? An Youyou's tea brewing skills can also be called good? This level is inferior even to an apprentice at Zhiwei Restaurant! Master Qin, I brew better tea, let me do it next time!

Long without any scenes or spotlight, Pei Xing once again ground his teeth.

Li Hua: ...

Li Hua also shook her head, thinking Pei Xing's teeth really are beyond saving.

"Master Qin." As she saw that Qin Huai finished drinking his tea, An Youyou believed she could speak, "Are you still planning to make potato dumplings today?"

"Yes." Qin Huai replied concisely.

"Will they be the same dumplings as yesterday or new ones?" An Youyou asked further.

Qin Huai realized An Youyou likely wanted to eat potato dumplings but felt shy to say so. As a considerate boss, Qin Huai naturally had to ask directly: "Do you have any ideas?"

"I… don't really have any ideas, I just thought maybe adding some cabbage to the potato dumplings would make it tastier," An Youyou said quietly.

Cabbage?

Qin Huai mentally imagined the combination of potato and cabbage, believing it probably wouldn't taste good, surely not as tasty as the combination of potato, pork, beef, and diced bamboo shoots.

However, since An Youyou wanted to eat potato cabbage filling, Qin Huai didn't mind casually making some. Having eaten sticky rice cake, making another type of dumpling is just a matter of routine.

"Is it potato and cabbage with other ingredients, or purely potato and cabbage?" Qin Huai asked.

"Purely, and add some minced meat," An Youyou said while swallowing hard, clearly showing a strong desire to eat them, "Previously, the potato buns at my family's breakfast shop used this filling, they were especially delicious."

Qin Huai: ? Your family's breakfast shop even sells potato buns, quite a variety!

"Okay." Qin Huai wouldn't explain to An Youyou the difference between bun fillings and dumpling fillings, many fillings taste good in buns but are disastrous in dumplings. Since An Youyou wanted to eat them, Qin Huai didn't mind indulging her; if they turned out unappetizing, they wouldn't be mentioned again; tasting some unpleasant food is also part of learning culinary skills.

Qin Huai previously enjoyed experimenting with recipes at home with Qin Luo, inventing and creating various things. Why doesn't he create anymore now?

Not because he learned from painful experience, those created unpalatable items are still food, mustn't be wasted. Qin Huai ate less, while Qin Luo often ate those dark cuisine creations in tears.

Later on, unless Qin Luo had a particular craving, otherwise whenever Qin Huai wanted to invent, Qin Luo would cry out and cling to Qin Huai's leg, pleading: "Bro, I really don't want to eat those unpalatable things, please stop innovating, spare your sister!"

Not only spoken loudly, but cried passionately, moving him emotionally, making reasoning clear, full of tears.

Qin Huai could say he realized his capability through Qin Luo's repeated cries.

Not overestimating oneself is a lesson every snack master needs to learn on the path of growth. Qin Huai had learned it, and he didn't mind creating a learning opportunity for An Youyou.

Qin Huai first made the potato cabbage dumplings that An Youyou wanted to eat.